Jake
5 year old buck +
Central Wisconsin 40 yard wide by 100 yard long plot. Almost 7.0 soil pH and 4ft 3pt tiller set as high as it can go.
I have other plot friends with pigweed issues all over and we all share ideas and stories so I am not alone...
Fall brassica planting of 2017 had pigweed go to seed in a brassica plot. Spring 2018 frost seeded clover heavy and kept mowed that year. Did some brassicas too in a different strip. Summer 2019 killed off clover and broadcasted brassicas in July and lightly dragged it as no tiller at the current time. Pigweed came back and hand pulled best I could and I weed whacked the tops off but it just grew shorter and threw a seed head shorter...Late summer 2019 I tilled up some bad area and planted winter rye before that pigweed went to seed..
Spring 2020 I tilled up early and planted oats and annual clover. No pigweed in sight... The rye side got annual clover frost seeded into it. Early June I cultipacked and sprayed the rye and oats down with hopes of broadcast/pack brassicas into it. (I should have waited a month and then it would have worked). Early July pretty well exposed soil and few pig weed plants popping up and a Creeping charlie weed. July 10th Decided to broadcast fertilizer and rototill the plot as I didn't like the weeds poking up in hopes of August 1st planting.
Came back 3 weeks later to a plot literally full of pigweed... Plans changed.....
So of course I tilled it under with the mindset of the seed bank sprouted and greened up and now it's time to do it again. Always hear guys saying disc then wait two weeks and disc again and plant.
Plan is end of August a winter rye and oats planting and spot spray 24d if needed.
Then spring 2021 let the rye grow up a little. Broadcast buckwheat, cultipack and spray. July then broadcast brassicas/pea/annual clover/oat seed and fertilizer and cultipack and spray buckwheat. No tiller!
Picture one is rye on right and spring planted oats on left...
2nd pic is what I walked up to 3 weeks after tilling
Next post is how it looks today.
I have other plot friends with pigweed issues all over and we all share ideas and stories so I am not alone...
Fall brassica planting of 2017 had pigweed go to seed in a brassica plot. Spring 2018 frost seeded clover heavy and kept mowed that year. Did some brassicas too in a different strip. Summer 2019 killed off clover and broadcasted brassicas in July and lightly dragged it as no tiller at the current time. Pigweed came back and hand pulled best I could and I weed whacked the tops off but it just grew shorter and threw a seed head shorter...Late summer 2019 I tilled up some bad area and planted winter rye before that pigweed went to seed..
Spring 2020 I tilled up early and planted oats and annual clover. No pigweed in sight... The rye side got annual clover frost seeded into it. Early June I cultipacked and sprayed the rye and oats down with hopes of broadcast/pack brassicas into it. (I should have waited a month and then it would have worked). Early July pretty well exposed soil and few pig weed plants popping up and a Creeping charlie weed. July 10th Decided to broadcast fertilizer and rototill the plot as I didn't like the weeds poking up in hopes of August 1st planting.
Came back 3 weeks later to a plot literally full of pigweed... Plans changed.....
So of course I tilled it under with the mindset of the seed bank sprouted and greened up and now it's time to do it again. Always hear guys saying disc then wait two weeks and disc again and plant.
Plan is end of August a winter rye and oats planting and spot spray 24d if needed.
Then spring 2021 let the rye grow up a little. Broadcast buckwheat, cultipack and spray. July then broadcast brassicas/pea/annual clover/oat seed and fertilizer and cultipack and spray buckwheat. No tiller!
Picture one is rye on right and spring planted oats on left...
2nd pic is what I walked up to 3 weeks after tilling
Next post is how it looks today.
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